Jonathan Harington

Spear’s Review

Jonathan Harington has been a buying agent since 1986, experiencing the many ebbs and flows of the London property market, and single-handedly created the purchasing arms of both Lane Fox (now Strutt & Parker) and Knight Frank. If anyone can weather a crisis, it’s him. 

‘It’s a bonkers business,’ he tells Spear’s. ‘You have to get in front of the right people, convince them that we’re the best people to do it, and then of course you’ve got to find the property – there’s a whole list of things that can go wrong.’

When he founded Haringtons in 2004 it was one of the first buying agencies in the UK. The firm operates on a quality over quantity ethos, only retaining a small number of domestic and overseas clients at one time – always on an exclusive basis.